NewsWires
A Michael Jackson Hologram? Will.I.Am Wants to Rock With Virtual MJ
Jaws dropped at the Coachella music festival in 2012 when rapper Tupac Shakur arrived on stage to perform. After all, he died in 2006 from multiple gunshot wounds. Modern technology brought him back from the dead six years later as … Continue reading
Quiz: GeoCities or Tumblr?
Remember GeoCities? The quirky, city-themed web hosting service and early social network that, by 1999, was the third-most-visited site on the World Wide Web? Fourteen years ago, Yahoo acquired it — and with much the same fanfare as the Internet … Continue reading
NBA Star Dwyane Wade Surprises Fan at Prom After YouTube Invite
Nicole Muxo is a senior at Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High in Miami. She’s also a huge fan of Miami Heat player Dwyane Wade. So last month, she made a minute-and-a-half YouTube video asking Wade to be her prom date. … Continue reading
Crowd Goes Wild as Baby Scores Cutest Goal in Soccer History
Baby scores goal! Crowd goes wild! This may just be the most adorable play in the history of soccer The aww-inducing moment comes from Chelsea player Paulo Ferreira’s retirement ceremony at the club’s Stamford Bridge stadium this weekend. As Ferreira … Continue reading
After Hiatus, Chinese Hackers Take Aim at U.S. Targets
Three months ago, security firm Mandiant revealed that an army unit of Chinese hackers was to blame for attacks on U.S. targets for at least six years, stealing corporate and government secrets. Now, after a period in which the group … Continue reading
Blogger Challenges Abercrombie’s ‘Skinny’ Image
Abercrombie & Fitch’s small sizes aren’t stopping this blogger from taking a stand when it comes to the public image of plus-size women Jes, known on the Internet as The Militant Baker, recreated popular topless A&F ads, but with her … Continue reading
Super Skinny iPad 5 May Hit Stores This Fall
Apple’s fifth-generation iPad will hit mass production in July and launch “as early as September,” according to supply chain sources. Digitimes reports that the next iPad will still have a 9.7-inch 2048 x 1536 resolution display, albeit one which is … Continue reading
Sony X Headphones Debut at Maxim’s Hot 100 Party
LOS ANGELES — Sony picked one of the most high-profile parties of the year to debut its new headphones. And with a red carpet studded with vamping models, celebrities and enough paparazzi coverage to scare Kanye, the Sony X headphones got a lot of attention … Continue reading
Video Game Without Video Taps Your Imagination
When Michael Newman was a little kid, he liked to draw new video game levels. Quite literally, the obsessive tinkerer is still doing so, but judging by the Video Game Sans Video project he demoed at the 2013 Maker Faire, … Continue reading
How to Identify a Wannabe Thought Leader
Ever watch one of those juice infomercials that feature some self-created celebrity whirring blueberries in a blender? And did you believe, as they scraped all that fruit into a shoot, that this speaker was actually an authority on their subject? … Continue reading